... inner worlds ofanimals 35 Both Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man andAnimalsand his The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex discussed the inner worlds of organisms, ... question of. where Uexkiill, in his view of life as a unified entity, thought purposeful life was going And yet UexkiiU's exposition of purpose and perception, of cycles and signaling, of the relationship ... the Worlds ofAnimalsand Humans is a bit of a conundrum On the one 19 20 I T O U TO NR D CI N hand, we have an intrepid philosophical act of observation, intuition, and deduction of the perceptual...
... of adults have serologic evidence of exposure to the virus Infections are often asymptomatic in young children In adolescents and young adults, infection often results in the development ofinfectious ... marker of NK cell differentiation, CD2, CD7, and CD8 and are negative for CD3 and CD5.204,205 The tumors often express T-cell intracellular antigen-1 (TIA-1), perforin, and FAS (CD95/Apo1) ligand.206 ... cervicofacial disease usually report a history of dental surgery, oral trauma, poor hygiene, or periodontal disease and painless soft tissue swelling involving the submandibular area Long-standing...
... and a night were divided into 24 parts: I said to her: "The day-time is light, and people can then go about, and eat and work; at night it is dark, and people andanimals sleepdo you understand ... otter-hound and the bull-terrier, this strain having been originally obtained by the factory hands of Airedale in the North of England, who thus sought to obtain a hardy dogone not afraid of water, and ... meadows, and play with a lot of other animals, and not have to work too long; the professors shall be sent away when Lola is tired.' This evidently pleased him, and he became very friendly to me, and...
... making here a big trapezium ‐ shaped meander (Fig. 1 and 2): on the one hand because of high level of tectonic fissuration, on the other hand owing to the presence of the erodible shales and silty sandstone ... households were lost totally, 15 enterprises and offices were destroyed, 113 ha of rice field were damaged heavily, 243 ha of arable soil buried under cover of 40cm of mud and debris, 5 major bridges and 15 irrigation works were destroyed; ... reception of rainy air mass coming from NW‐ and Da River side. The east slope with its important elevation and steepness, like a grandiose wall, and in addition of activities of 4 ...
... the fruit out of the mouth of the dragon, while the man has already begun to eat The Temptation is found on many of the crosses of Ireland and Scotland, and on the Norman tympana of Thurleigh, ... of the goat are to be seen on the capitals of the chancel arch of Adel (Yorks); on the jambs of a doorway at Ely Cathedral, and probably with other animals on the tympanum of the north door of ... by the pomps and vanities of this world Jonah and the whale are often found in the paintings of the catacombs, and on ancient sarcophagi and lamps In the thirteenth century glass of Bourges Cathedral...
... Adaptive Motion ofAnimalsand Machines With 241 Figures ABC Hiroshi Kimura Graduate School of Information Systems University of Electro-Communications 1-5-1 Chofu-ga-oka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, ... understand the principles ofanimals remarkable ability for adaptive motion and to transfer such abilities to a robot Up to now, mechanisms for generation and control of stereotyped motions and ... take up and push off Furthermore the amplitude and the time course of the angular velocity is rather similar in the different tasks Almost independent of the load and thus of reaction force and muscle...
... development and testing of candidate live attenuated vaccines and antiviral therapeutics against CVA16 Methods Cells and viruses RD and Vero cells were grown in DMEM (Gibco, Grand Island, NY, USA) ... first construction of an infectious cDNA clone of CVA16 This infectious clone contains the full-length cDNA of CVA16 flanked by a T7 promoter and a poly(A) tail at the 5′ and 3′ ends, respectively ... infectivity of the recovered virus Conclusions This study reports the first construction and characterization of a novel infectious cDNA clone of CVA16 This cDNA clone was capable of producing the infectious...
... development and testing of candidate live attenuated vaccines and antiviral therapeutics against CVA16 Methods Cells and viruses RD and Vero cells were grown in DMEM (Gibco, Grand Island, NY, USA) ... first construction of an infectious cDNA clone of CVA16 This infectious clone contains the full-length cDNA of CVA16 flanked by a T7 promoter and a poly(A) tail at the 5′ and 3′ ends, respectively ... infectivity of the recovered virus Conclusions This study reports the first construction and characterization of a novel infectious cDNA clone of CVA16 This cDNA clone was capable of producing the infectious...
... year to present the public with touching and amusing proofs of the sagacity and dispositions of birds, andof "hair-breadth scapes" from reptiles, etc., some of which will, like those in the present ... The Project Gutenberg EBook of Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals, by R Lee This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever ... powerful of all the Quadrumana live, far exceeding the Oran Outang, and even the Pongo of Borneo Mr Bowdich and myself were the first to revive and confirm a long forgotten, and vague report of the...
... [U]Silicate of potash EXCREMENTS OFANIMALSOf what is animal excrement composed? Explain the composition of the food ofanimals What does hay contain? To what does Liebig compare the consumption of food ... 97] we may know of what they consist, we must refer to the composition of food and examine the process of digestion The food of animals, we have seen to consist of both organic and inorganic matter ... physiological point of view, but it is sufficiently so to give an elementary understanding of the character of excrements as manures [W]The excrements ofanimals contain more or less of sulphur, and sometimes...
... EXCREMENTS OFANIMALSOf what is animal excrement composed? Explain the composition of the food ofanimals What does hay contain? To what does Liebig compare the consumption of food by animals, and ... physiological point of view, but it is sufficiently so to give an elementary understanding of the character of excrements as manures [W]The excrements ofanimals contain more or less of sulphur, and sometimes ... carbon in the blood of animals, unites with the oxygen of the air drawn into the lungs, and is thrown off in the breath as carbonic acid The hydrogen and oxygen unite to form a part of the water which...
... for infectiousagents in disease The ability of some agents to remain latent, as well as the existence of new and emerging infections [6], make detection and proving causality challenging An infectious ... inflammation • Production of inflammatory cytokines, ROS and RNOS • Increased cell cycling and proliferation • DNA, protein and membrane damage • Gene expression changes Figure Infectiousagents can contribute ... and a human receptor tyrosine kinase was detected The new virus was named Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV) and was detected in 80% of MCC tumors and also in 16% of normal skin biopsies In 75% of...
... understanding of the pathogenesis of postinfectious arthritis Materials and method Patients SF samples were collected by routine aspiration, mainly from patients attending the Department of Medicine, ... samples and approximately half was then treated with DNase I, and then aliquots of both were subjected to RT-PCR using universal primers R1 and R2 for detection of bacterial 16S rRNA sequences Of ... implications of these findings for our understanding of the pathogenesis of postinfectious arthritis? First, the fact that rRNA sequences from disease associated organisms are a minority of those...
... investigation of the extent of gene duplication prior to the split ofplantsand animals/ fungi is still lacking Here, we present extensive phylogenetic analyses of gene families and our results ... eukaryotic and prokaryotic species The three multicellular eukaryotic kingdoms, plants, animalsand fungi, belong to two of the six major eukaryotic supergroups (plants in Archaeplastida; animalsand ... supergroups’ model of eukaryotic phylogeny (Figure 1b) and other recent phylogenies, the separation ofplantsand animals/ fungi could have been as early as the separation of any major groups of extant...
... hairpins does not imply the existence of similar numbers of evolutionarily emergent miRNA genes In light of broad transcription across euchromatin ofplantsandanimals [125,126], including substantial ... in plantsandanimals (a) In plants, canonical microRNAs (miRNAs) are produced by the nuclear RNase III Dicer-like1 (DCL1), which cuts from the base of the hairpin towards the loop; a subset of ... increase Shortening of the hairpin to produce a single defined duplex may represent a mature state of plant miRNA evolution (c) Expansion of miRNA clusters In both plantsand animals, local duplication...
... Adaptive Motion ofAnimalsand Machines With 241 Figures ABC Hiroshi Kimura Graduate School of Information Systems University of Electro-Communications 1-5-1 Chofu-ga-oka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, ... understand the principles ofanimals remarkable ability for adaptive motion and to transfer such abilities to a robot Up to now, mechanisms for generation and control of stereotyped motions and ... Common and different control properties of Qp and Bp locomotion Similarity and difference in the kinematics of lower limbs during Bp walking between our monkey model and the human ...
... take up and push off Furthermore the amplitude and the time course of the angular velocity is rather similar in the different tasks Almost independent of the load and thus of reaction force and muscle ... Dynamics and control of bipedal locomotion Journal of Theoretical Biology, 163:277-314 Blickhan R, Full RJ, 1987, Locomotion energetics of the ghost crab: II Mechanics of the center of mass J ... on animals in parallel with software and hardware simulations of the control structures and the body to be controlled In this paper, we will first describe the basic behavioral properties of hexapod...
... excitation along first one and then the other side of the body The activation of any two pairs of segments has a constant phase relationship regardless of the speed of propagation of the traveling wave ... Functional organization of the lamprey CPG Each segment or small group of segments consists of a pair of coupled oscillators The coupling is ascending and descending, and long and short (adapted from ... Jaax and Hannaford[26] Summary and conclusions Presented here is an overview of some principles for control of locomotion that are seen in all animalsand which offer ideas for robotic design and...
... control of Bp standing and Bp walking, and especially of the adaptability of locomotor movements to meet the environmental demands This adaptability is one of the most important characteristics of ... rapid and smooth succession of targeting, orienting, and righting Targeting requires the coordinated activity of head, neck, trunk and fore-limbs, and righting that of head, neck, trunk and hind-limb ... Bp and Qp walking [42] Inactivation of the M1 [43] and SMA by microinjection of muscimol into each area [44] also resulted, respectively, in focal and general impairments of the Bp standing and...